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The Manifest Archive
By Jerry
Jerry van der Laan
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Jerry van der Laan

Jerry van der Laan is an independent analyst and the author of The Manifest Archive. He reconstructs how energy, money and state power interact from public data and primary documents.

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Willem-Alexander Met Trump the Day After Bilderberg Ended. The Royal Programme Left Bilderberg Out.
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Willem-Alexander Met Trump the Day After Bilderberg Ended. The Royal Programme Left Bilderberg Out.

The visit that the official programme did not mention

Geopolitics Apr 19, 2026
BlackRock Doesn’t Own the War. It Owns Everything Around It.
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BlackRock Doesn’t Own the War. It Owns Everything Around It.

The Big Three hold the largest stakes in the weapon, the coverage, the financing, the medicine, and the rebuilding. A structure exposed to every side of a war has no surviving reason to prefer peace.

Financial Architecture Apr 18, 2026
The Architecture of Dismissal
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The Architecture of Dismissal

There is a way to defeat an argument without ever touching its evidence. You attach a category to the person before the case is read. A declassified 1967 CIA memo, the FBI campaign against King, MKUltra, and the platforms and machines that inherited the move.

Surveillance, Tech & Intelligence Apr 17, 2026
The 2026 Strikes Didn’t Start in 2026
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The 2026 Strikes Didn’t Start in 2026

The seventy-year chain the morning briefings didn’t mention

Geopolitics Apr 16, 2026
Why I Write: A Manifesto For The Manifest Archive
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Why I Write: A Manifesto For The Manifest Archive

On Making the Invisible Architecture Visible

The Track Record Apr 15, 2026
Everyone Is Watching Food Prices. Nobody Is Watching the Gas That Feeds Half the World.
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Everyone Is Watching Food Prices. Nobody Is Watching the Gas That Feeds Half the World.

Everyone watches the four companies that move the grain. Beneath them is a tighter chokepoint, the seed. And beneath that, a single gas-fed reaction that feeds half of humanity, and that almost no one who eats has ever heard of.

Surveillance, Tech & Intelligence Apr 14, 2026
How the CIA Built the Surveillance Economy
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How the CIA Built the Surveillance Economy

The determining variable was never the tech companies. It was the intelligence-state seed capital, and the one word on the charter that made its author disappear.

Surveillance, Tech & Intelligence Apr 13, 2026
The Iran Talks Failed. The Language Failed First.
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The Iran Talks Failed. The Language Failed First.

The US and Iran sat down in Islamabad using the same words. They meant different things. And the system that profits from their failure was…

Geopolitics Apr 12, 2026
What Links Epstein, Musk, the CIA and Palantir?
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What Links Epstein, Musk, the CIA and Palantir?

Most people don’t know what Palantir is. This article explains why that matters, and how systems like it are quietly reshaping power, AI, and decision-making. There are moments in history

Surveillance, Tech & Intelligence Apr 11, 2026
Strait of Hormuz: The War After the Ceasefire
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Strait of Hormuz: The War After the Ceasefire

The first sign that a war is still alive is not always fire.

Geopolitics Apr 10, 2026
Narrative Replaces Reality
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Narrative Replaces Reality

How modern power no longer needs to hide the truth when it can build a more usable version of the world.

The Track Record Apr 9, 2026
Strait of Hormuz: The Ceasefire That Exposed the Limit
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Strait of Hormuz: The Ceasefire That Exposed the Limit

The pause did not reveal peace. It revealed the point where pressure became too expensive to sustain, and too useful to fully remove.

Geopolitics Apr 8, 2026